Bogota

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: December 2014

Bogotá is the capital of Colombia and Cundinamarca Department, with a population of 8,854,722 in 2015. Bogotá and its metropolitan area had a population of over 13 million in 2015. Bogotá is the fastest growing major city in Latin America, and is expected to have around 25 million inhabitants by 2038.

Galeras

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015

Galeras is an Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto. Its summit rises 4,276 metres above sea level. It has erupted frequently since the Spanish conquest, with its first historical eruption being recorded on December 7, 1580. A 1993 eruption killed nine people, including six scientists who had descended into the volcano's crater to sample gases and take gravity measurements in an attempt to be able to predict future eruptions. It is currently the most active volcano in Colombia.

Zipaquira

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: December 2014

Zipaquirá is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. The town is primarily known for its Salt Cathedral, an underground church built inside a salt deposit in a tunnel made as result of the excavation of the salinas (salt mines). Zipaquirá has a very interesting architecture, and the old city centre is a tourist attraction. Its main square is surrounded by old buildings in the Spanish Colonial style. This small city can be reached by train from Bogotá.

Cumbal

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015

Cumbal is a stratovolcano located in Nariño Department, Colombia. It is the southernmost historically active volcano of Colombia. The volcano was the crash site of TAME Flight 120, which crashed in one of its hills while approaching Tulcán on January 28, 2002. There were no survivors.

San Francisco de Icho, Chocó

Received from: Colombia
Category: From a friend
Date: August 2015

In prehistoric times the Chocó rainforest served as a major barrier isolating the Mesoamerican and Andean civilisations, and the extremely humid climate also failed to attract the Spanish colonists. The region was eventually granted by the Emberá Indians to the Franciscan order in 1648, but subsequent attacks by hostile tribes meant attempts at settlement were abandoned, only to be established again six years later.

Laguna Verde

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015
Green lagoon (la laguna verde) is a lake located in the volcanic cone Azufral in Nariño, Colombia.

Tumaco

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015

Tumaco is a port city and municipality in the Nariño Department, Colombia, by the Pacific Ocean. It is located on the southwestern of Colombia, near to border with Ecuador, and enjoys of hot tropical climate. Tumaco is inhabited mainly by Afro-Colombians and some indigenous people.

Pasto

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015

Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Nariño, located in southern Colombia. The city is located in the "Atriz Valley", on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano, at an altitude of 8,290 feet (2,527 m) above sea level. The city has a population of approximately 500,000 inhabitants.

Blacks and Whites' Carnival

From: Colombia
Category: collection
Date: January 2015

Blacks and Whites' Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval de Negros y Blancos), is the largest carnival celebration in southern Colombia, its geographical indication belongs to the city of Pasto. It is celebrated from 2 to 7 January of each year and attracts a considerable number of Colombian and foreign tourists. In 30 September 2009, this Carnival was proclaimed by UNESCO, as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Cali

Received from: Colombia
Category: from a friend
Date: December 2013

Cali is the shortened form of the official name of the city: Santiago de Cali. "Santiago" honours Saint James (Santiago in Spanish) whose feast day is celebrated on 25 July. The origin of the word "Cali" comes from the local native Indian tribe the "Calima" or "Calimas" descendants of the Chibcha tribe. Some believe that the word "Cali" has Quechua origin, and was brought by the Yanaconas Indians that came from Quito serving Sebastián de Belalcázar. This theory is related to the fact that near Quito there is an indigenous town named Calacali.

Laguna de la Cocha

Received from: Colombia
Category: private
Date: July 2012

The Laguna de la Cocha, also called Lake Guamuez, consists of a large natural reservoir of glacial origin, situated in the village The Encano, the municipality of Pasto, Nariño, south west of Colombia.

Ipiales

Received from: Colombia
Category: private
Date: July 2012
Ipiales is a city in Nariño Department, Colombia, near the border with Ecuador. Ipiales is known as "la ciudad de las nubes verdes" (the city of the green clouds) because some times, especially in the afternoon, green clouds appear over the city. One of the area's favorite foods is the guinea pig or cavy (Cavia porcellus), called "cuy", said to "look like a mouse and taste like a rabbit".

Las Lajas

Received from: Colombia
Category: private
Date: July 2012Las Lajas Sanctuary (in Spanish Santuario de Las Lajas) is a minor basilica church located in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales and built inside the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present church was built in Gothic Revival style in 1949. The name Laja comes from the name of a type of flat sedimentary rock similar to shale.

Colombia

Received from: Colombia
Category: private
Date: July 2012

Blacks and Whites' Carnival (Spanish: Carnaval de Negros y Blancos), is the largest and most important celebration in southern Colombia, its geographical indication belongs to the city of Pasto. It's celebrated from 2 to 7 January of each year and attracts a considerable number of Colombian and foreign tourists. In 30 September 2009, this Carnival was proclaimed by UNESCO, as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Colombia

Received from: Colombia
Category: private
Date: July 2012

A guagua de pan (bread baby) is a type of sweet roll shaped and decorated in the form of a small child or infant. They are generally made of wheat and sometimes contain a sweet filling. They are made and eaten as part of ancestral rites in Andean regions of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, the south of Colombia, and the north of Argentina, mainly on the Day of the Dead, but also as part of agricultural festivals, carnivals, and Christmas.

Cali

Received from: Colombia
Category: private swap
Date: August 2011

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Another private swap suggested by the user whose card I liked (or rather whose cards I really love ;) ). I'm completely fascinated by Colombia, so I was so happy that almost speechless :P. I received the postcard from Cali, what's even more special for me that in this city I have a very good friend.

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I love both the card and the stamps :D

Santiago de Cali, simply referred to as Cali, is a city in western Colombia and the capital of the Valle del Cauca Department. With a population of 2.5 million, Cali is the third largest city in the country. It has one of the fastest growing economies and infrastructure in the country because of its geographical location. The city was founded on July 25, 1536 by the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar.